Improved artificial fuel



UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY SEYMOUR, or DARTMOOR, GREAT BRITAIN.

IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it'known that I, HARRY SEYMOUR, of Dartmoor, in the county ofDevonshire and Kingdom .of Great Britain, have invented a new and usefulcomposition of matter intended to be; employed as an artificial fuel,which I 2 denominate Seymonrs Concentrated Fuel a'nd l do hereby declarethat the following is i. a-full, clear, and exact description of thesame. 1 My improved composition is made of the 1 followingingredients'and proportions: silex and alumina, seventy-five parts, byweight; well-dried refuse vegetable matter, three bun l dred andseventy-five parts, by weight; petroleum orcoal-oil, four hundred andseventy-five parts, by weight. The vegetable matter is boiled in thepetroleum for twenty-four hours, i or until such time as the petroleumis absorbed. {It is then removed and well mixed with the l silex andalumina, and the mix'ture is then i molded into bricks and dried, whenit is ready i for use.

, Instead of silex and alumina, other mineral f substances can besubstituted, and the proporition of the several substances must then bechanged; A good fuel is obtained, for instance, by mixing the followingsubstances: lime, two hundred parts, by weight; oxygenated manganese orfibrous oxygenated earths, ithree hundred'parts, by weight; petroleum,itwo hundred and fifty parts, by weight; re-

fuse animal matter, fifty parts, by weight. In

this case the fibrousearth is mixed with the Specification forming partof Letters latent No. 36,305, dated August 26, 1862.

lime, and thoroughly dried, and the animal matter is boiled in thepetroleum until the latter is absorbed; All the ingredients are nowthoroughly mixed and molded into bricks and dried, and, when dried, thebricks are placed in. a vat and allowed to absorb as much petroleumasthey will receive and allowed to drain until required for use. 7

The fuel, may also be prepared in the following manner: Take silex andalumnia, two hundred and fifty parts; peat, earth, sawdust, tann'ersbark, green roots, separately or mixed together, five hundred parts, andcarefully mix them through any mixing-machine and castthem into bricks.These bricks are carefully dried, and they are now dipped into thepetroleum and drained and afterward dried in an oven or kiln, when theyare ready for use. I it is obvious that the petroleum can be used eitherin its natural or in a refined state, and instead of petroleum, coaloilor allied manufactured substances might be substituted.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1 The composition for anartificial fuel made of the ingredients and in the manner andproportions herein set forth.

HARRY SEYMOUR;

Witnesses:

R. STUART, WM. MoPnERsoN.

